Jisho

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8 strokes
Radical:
enclosure
Parts:
Variants:
country
Kun:
くに
On:
コク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N5
3 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 国益 【コクエキ】 national interest
  • 国営 【コクエイ】 government management, state management
  • 最恵国 【サイケイコク】 most favored nation, most favoured nation, MFN
  • 異国 【イコク】 foreign country

Kun reading compounds

  • 国 【くに】 country, state, region, national government, central government, home (i.e. hometown, home country), province (of Japan), land, earth
  • 国人 【こくじん】 indigenous person, inhabitant of a country, local, native, local lords and samurai, daimyo who did not leave his domains to meet the shogun in Kyoto (during the Muromachi period)
  • お国 【おくに】 your native country, your hometown, my home country (i.e. Japan), countryside, country, daimyo's territory (Edo period)
  • 現国 【うつしくに】 world of mankind, this world

Readings

Japanese names:
くな、 こ
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
guo2
Korean:
gug

Spanish

  • país

Portuguese

  • País
  • terra
  • nação

French

  • pays
79 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
136 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
123 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
8 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1037 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
111 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
36 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
745 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
2.11 Japanese for Busy People
40 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
40 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
151 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
344 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3831 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1964 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2659 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
588 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
4752 Morohashi
3087 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
950 New Nelson (John Haig)
581 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
624 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
4 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
158 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3172 2001 Kanji
3s5.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-5 SKIP code
6010.3 Four corner code
1-25-81 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
56fd Unicode hex code

6 strokes
Radical:
corpse
Parts:
Variants:
exhaust, use up, run out of, deplete, befriend, serve
Jōyō kanji, taught in junior high
JLPT level N1
1234 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 尽 【ジン】 last day (of the month)
  • 尽力 【ジンリョク】 efforts, exertion, endeavour, assistance, services
  • 理不尽 【リフジン】 unreasonable, irrational, outrageous, absurd
  • 縦横無尽 【ジュウオウムジン】 freely, right and left, as one pleases

Kun reading compounds

  • 尽きる 【つきる】 to be used up, to be run out, to be exhausted, to be consumed, to come to an end
  • 尽くす 【つくす】 to use up, to exhaust, to run out of, to devote oneself (to), to do one's utmost (for), to serve, to work (for a cause), to do to exhaustion, to do completely, to do fully
  • 尽かす 【つかす】 to use completely, to use up, to exhaust, to exhaust someone's civility, to give up (on someone)
  • 悉く 【ことごとく】 altogether, entirely

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
jin3, jin4
Korean:
jin

Spanish

  • agotar
  • acabar
  • gastar
  • cumplir
  • esforzarse

Portuguese

  • acabar
  • exaurir
  • terminar
  • faz amizade com
  • servir (alguem)

French

  • épuiser
  • arriver au bout
  • être à court de
  • être dégoûté
  • prendre en amitié
  • servir
1447 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1603 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
1380 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1530 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1229 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
290 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
1726 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1844 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
1726 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
523 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3786 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1932 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2624 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1080 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
7642 Morohashi
3050 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1408 New Nelson (John Haig)
1071 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1152 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
1072 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
3740 2001 Kanji
3r3.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-3-3 SKIP code
3-4-2 SKIP code
7730.3 Four corner code
1-31-52 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
5c3d Unicode hex code